External characters
thinly encrusting; on verongid sponge.
Colour
bright orange in life.
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | very small, slightly raised, scattered. |
| Texture | slimy. |
| Surface_Ornamentation | smooth. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | collagenous. |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | collagenous; mesohyl moderately heavy. |
| Megascleres | nil. |
| Microscleres | nil. |
| Mudmap_Author | J Hooper |
| Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Tuamotu islands
Pacific Ocean: Australia
Ecology and habitat
In the lagoon, on pinnacles.
J Hooper (2014). QM1231 Halisarca sp. (OTU QM1231) . In: Hall, K.A. & Hooper, J.N.A. (2014) SpongeMaps: an online community for taxonomy and identification of sponges. (Available at http://www.spongemaps.org).
